“The Chattering of Timothy Strossmeyer or Discipline and the Oppressed.” Learning as We Teach. Eds. Matt Parfit and Dawn Skorczewski. Connecticut: Bonyton and Cook. 2003.

“Negotiating Womanhood through Frontier Adventure in Life Among the Piutes.” Eds. Will Wright andSteven Kaplan. The Image of the Frontier. Colorado: U of Southern Colorado, 1997. First presented at “The Image of the Frontier,” “Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery,” Colorado Springs, March 15, 1997.

“Linda Hogan’s Wolverine Activism.” “Environmental Justice, Gender, Sexuality, and Activism.” Beingin the World, Living with the Land. Association for Study of Literature and the Environment, Eugene, Oregon, June 22, 2005.

“As Brave as Any of the Men: Native American Women in Women’s Tales of Adventure.” AmericanLiterature Association, San Diego, California, May 30, 1998.

“The Value of Writing? Institutional Contexts and the Teaching of Composition in the LiteratureClassroom.” “English Contexts and Connections,” New Jersey College English Association, Middlesex County College, New Jersey, April 4, 1998.

“Ethnicity and the Frontier,” Chair. “The Image of the Frontier,” Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. Colorado Springs, Colorado, March 14, 1997.

"Whose America? Negotiating Race, Gender, and Nation in Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins' Life Among the Piutes." "Negotiating Identities in the Americas," Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 1, 1995.

"Adventure as Ecological Witness in the Writings of John Muir." Fellows Colloquium, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 2, 1994.

"Moving Beyond Pam Houston: Calamity Jane, The Beet Queen, and Miss Dish Rap About ChangingDefinitions of Adventure." "Transformations of Women and Gender," Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 17, 1994.

Other Interests

Professor Jespersen specializes in late 19th and early 20th-Century United States literature, gender studies, and colonial and postcolonial discourse. Currently, she is doing research on Environmental Justice literature and Globalization.